key. It was just an example of how 4 columns could be used in conjunction
to make some sort of 'unique' identifier. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlon Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Which to use as primary key?
> I'd have a problem with this because of the issue of changing names
> (ie a woman gets married,etc) I don't think a primary key should
> involve data that could change.
>
> My $.02
>
> Marlon
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:56:23 -0400, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> > I believe he means that the combination of those four columns creates a
> > unique identifier that can be used as the primary key, much as FirstName
+
> > MiddleName + LastName + DateOfBirth would go a long way to uniquely
> > identifying you.
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